AC Power Flow Data in MATPOWER and QCQP Format: iTesla, RTE Snapshots, and PEGASE

TL;DR

This paper publishes nine new high-voltage power grid test cases in MATPOWER format, derived from French and European sources, along with MATLAB tools and validation results for use in power system optimization research.

Contribution

It introduces nine new power flow test cases in MATPOWER format from French and European grids, with transformation tools and validation results, expanding available benchmark datasets.

Findings

Validation confirms data accuracy and consistency.

Provides MATLAB code for data transformation.

Enhances power system optimization benchmarking.

Abstract

In this paper, we publish nine new test cases in MATPOWER format. Four test cases are French very high-voltage grid generated by the offline plateform of iTesla: part of the data was sampled. Four test cases are RTE snapshots of the full French very high-voltage and high-voltage grid that come from French SCADAs via the Convergence software. The ninth and largest test case is a pan-European ficticious data set that stems from the PEGASE project. It complements the four PEGASE test cases that we previously published in MATPOWER version 5.1 in March 2015. We also provide a MATLAB code to transform the data into standard mathematical optimization format. Computational results confirming the validity of the data are presented in this paper.